User Interface Design

According to Wikipedia, User Interface Design is the design of computers, appliances, machines, mobile communication devices, software appliances, and websites with the focus on the user's experience and interaction.

The goal of user interface design is to make the user's interaction as simple and the efficient as possible. Interface designers will design the product's interface to be more user friendly and helps people such as disabled ones to use the products.

As an example, this is a design of a MP4 player. The button is designed to be pop-up compared to normal MP4 players. When we are adjusting the volume, the pop-up button is easier for us to adjusted compared to press button.

This is a keyboard that is specially designed for blind people. Blind person can touch and feel the surface of the keyboard. Therefore, blind people are able to have a digital life like us too.

Lesson 5: Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition can be defined using two variables, side by side, their contrasts or similarities are shown through comparison.

Juxtaposition (literally) is the synonymous of contrast, two objects or texts the oppose each other. Random juxtaposition istwo random objects moving in parallel, a technique intended to stimulate creativity.

 As you see at the picture above, a nice painted house is placed beside a old house. This shows the juxtaposition of a new and an old building.

Creative Transports

When I was searching internet for images, I found some interesting and creative images of transports and vehicles.

This is an advertistment on a FedEx lorry snipping their rivals UPS.

The wheel of the bus is designed like a pair of eyes to attrace attention.

The house is built on a truck. The owner can travel around with his house.

This 3D advertistment looks like the gigantic beer bottle is poping out from the lorry. It captures our eyes.

Lesson 4: Associated Mind Map

This week, we are learning associated mind map. We had selected the keywords from the mind map about Mortar and Pestle that was given by lecturer.

Hair

According to the picture, a women is using a mortar as a hat and pestles as hair pins. She roll her hair on the pestles.

Noise

The mortar is used like a bell. When the pestle knocked on it, sound will be released.

Smoke

Using pestle to spin in the mortar. Frictional force will happened. When the frictional force is more enough, smoke will come out.

Sup

Mortar is used as a pot to cook the sup and the pestle is used to stir the sup.

Weapon

Mortar is used as a bunker as defense and pestle is used as cannon to attack.

Example of Logical Mind Map

Example of Associated Mind Map

Light in Art

According to Wikipedia, Light Art is a form of visual art where main media of expression is light. Using light to express our feelings is a wonderful thing. Light can be many form, soft, strong, gentle and etc.

There are many methods we can use to perform light in art. Photography and motion pictures is the most common method to perform. With the invention of artificial light, many artists begin to use light to perform their art.

This is a video of a artist drawing using light. He creatively uses light to draw. It looks very realistic.

This is Pika-Pika. It is a type of stop motion using many pictures combines together to create a video.

Lesson 3: Methods of Creative Thinking

This is the mind map about myself. I am Son Yang Fook from Multimedia University Cyberjaya Campus. I am currently taking Bachelor in Multimedia (Hons) Media Innovation courses. I was born in Ipoh. I am 19 years old.

Currently I had learned Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash, 3D Max and Adobe Dreamweaver.

Stereotype

Stereotype are commonly seen in media presentation. It usually labels one group or community to a specific characteristic. Most of the stereotype are negative. In other word, criticize the whole group or community. Therefore, the whole world will label that community because of the stereotype media.

Stereotype media can label a community to a positive (eg. tall men are good in basketball) or negative (eg. female drivers are bad drivers) characteristic. It creates an identity to a community. Stereotypes ignore the uniqueness of individuals by painting all members of a group with the same brush.
"In literature and art, stereotypes are clichéd or predictable characters or situations. Throughout history, storytellers have drawn from stereotypical characters and situations, in order to connect the audience with new tales immediately." quote from Wikipedia.

In order to connect with the audience, most of the storytellers characterize the character according to the history or the implant of characteristic about the certain community. Therefore, the judgement about the community will be deeper and deeper.

Street Painting

There are one kind of painting that caught my attention when I was looking for images online. The painting is called street painting. Those painting normally drawn on the street/roads. It can create an illusion that make people believes that it is real.

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This street painting is drawn by Edgar Müller - a Master of 3D Pavement Art.When you look at the painting, you will be stunned and believe it is the real one because the painting is too realistic.

Besides that, you will find many street painting at European Street Painting. Many of them are drawn by professional 3D artist.

Lesson 2: Novelty, Creativity, Innovation and Invention

Creative

A creative person is a person who generate new ideas. A creative process is how these new ideas, solutions, and inventions produced. Creativity involves the translation of our unique gifts, talents, and vision into an external reality that is new and useful. It takes place unavoidably inside our own personal, social, and cultural boundaries.

The picture at the left shows that the creativity of the Japanese. They invented this butter stick. When you are racing against time, this butter stick will come handy. You do not have to use a butter knife and you can bring the butter stick with you because it is compact.

Creativity appears to be utilized in varying degrees by different people with different culture and backgrounds.

Innovation

Creativity sometimes can be misunderstood with innovation. According to Wikipedia, innovation is a change in the thought process for doing something or "new stuff that is made useful". 

Novelty

Novelty is derived from Latin word novus for "new". Although it may be said to have an objective dimension, it essentially exists in the subjective perceptions of individuals. Novelty is the quality of being new. Subjective novelty is a perception of something as being new by an individual person or a group of persons. Objective novelty is something that is new for all humanity in its development through ages.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The public figure that we have chosen is Ludwig van Beethoven. He was a very famous German composer and pianist. He was the most crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in western classical music and remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all the time. 

Beethoven had given many contributions in the musical industries. First of all, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 was the first symphony that used a vocal component. Beethoven had successfully pushed the boundaries of music as his first symphony wan seen as strange, over extravagant and even risqué. Besides that, he was the one of the composers of post-Renaissance era to use, systematically, interlocking thematic devices, or “germ-motifs”, to achieve inter-movement unity in long compositions. He also brought innovations of most of the genres in which he worked; for example, he introduced elasticity to the previously well-crystallized form of the rondo, drawing it closer to sonata form. He re-envisioned the symphony into a freer and more expensive form. He built on the sonata form, write longer and more ambitious movements.

Creative Shopping Bags

Shopping is one of the important elements in advertising. A creative bag advertisement will let people remember it's products and the company.

The example that I am going to show you is some of the most creative shopping bags that I had ever seen. It can attract us to look at it again and again.

This shopping bag is design by Antje Gerwien, from University of Weimar. It creatively combine the rope of the shopping bag and the image of a man printed on the shopping bag.

This shopping bag is designed by Duval Guillaume, Brussels, Belguim. This design is use to prevent people to stop torturing animals at Gaia.

This shopping bag is designed by TBWA, Istanbul. It is also using the merge between the image on the shopping bag and the rope/handle of the bag.

This shopping bag is designed by Grey Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This shopping bag is designed for a magic shop, Magic-I. It is using fishing line as the handle for the bag. Therefore it looks like it is being held without handleas if by magic.